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Amaterasu is an attributive verb form that modifies the noun ... agree in their description of Amaterasu as the daughter of the god Izanagi and the elder sister of ...
She is the daughter or younger sister of the sun goddess Amaterasu. [2] Some interpretations view her as the personification of the morning sun. [3] She was involved in making garments for the kami. [4] In some versions Wakahirume was killed when Susanoo threw a flayed pony at her while she was in Amaterasu's weaving hall as written in the Nihongi.
Emperor Sujin appointed imperial daughter Princess Toyosuki-iri (豊鍬入姫命, Toyosuki-iri hime) as a Saiō to serve "as a cane for Amaterasu" to find a new location to reside, and dispatched Toyosuki-iri to travel from present day Nara to neighboring areas.
Amatsuhikone, considered the third son of Amaterasu. [11] Amatsumara (天津麻羅), the kami of iron-working. [12] Amatsu-Mikaboshi (天津甕星), the kami of stars who existed before the Kotoamatsukami. Amenohoakari, (天火明命) a sun and agriculture god. Ame-no-hohi (天菩比神, 天穂日命) considered the second son of Amaterasu. [13]
Image from the Tale of Genji showing what life at Saikū might have been like. According to Japanese legend, around 2,000 years ago the divine Yamatohime-no-mikoto, daughter of the Emperor Suinin, set out from Mount Miwa in Nara Prefecture in search of a permanent location to worship the goddess Amaterasu-ōmikami. [3]
Yamatohime-no-mikoto (倭比売命 or 倭姫命) is a Japanese figure who is said to have established Ise Shrine, where the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Omikami is enshrined. Yamatohime-no-mikoto is recorded as being the daughter of Emperor Suinin, Japan's 11th Emperor.
Amaterasu's brother, the storm god Susano'o, had vandalized her rice fields, threw a flayed horse at her loom, and brutally killed one of her maidens due to a quarrel between them. In turn, Amaterasu became furious with him and retreated into the Heavenly Rock Cave, Amano-Iwato. The world, without the illumination of the sun, became dark and ...
Ugayafukiaezu was a child of Hoori, the son of Ninigi-no-Mikoto, who was sent down by Amaterasu to govern the earth (Ashihara no Nakatsukuni) (believed to be equivalent to Japan), and of Toyotama-hime, a daughter of Ryūjin, the dragon kami of the sea. [2]